TCF Ep. 535 - Amy Toensing

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Cameras, Art, Photoshop, Visual Arts, Career, Interviews, Photographers, Arts, Photography, Photo, Digital

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Amy Toensing is a documentary photographer committed to telling stories with sensitivity and depth and known for her intimate stories about the lives of ordinary people. Toensing has been a regular contributor to National Geographic magazine for over two decades. She has photographed cultures around the world including the last cave-dwelling tribe of Papua New Guinea, remote Aboriginal Australia, the Maori of New Zealand, and the Kingdom of Tonga. She has also covered issues such as food insecurity in the United States, the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, and Muslim women living in Western culture. She recently completed her sixteenth feature story for National Geographic magazine on how conservation projects impact the surrounding culture and community. In addition to her photojournalism and documentary work, Toensing teaches photography to kids and young adults in underserved communities, including Burmese refugees in Baltimore, a young photojournalist in Islamabad, Pakistan, and Syrian refugee children in Jordan. Currently, Toensing is an Assistant Professor of Visual Storytelling at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and a National Geographic Explorer (2021-2022). Websites Amy Toensing Jason Eskenazi Education Resources: Using Your Life to Launch Your Photography Tokyo: Exploration of the Metropolis 2.0 Momenta Photographic Workshops https://momentaworkshops.com/workshops/ Candid Frame Resources Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Support the work we do at The Candid Frame by contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .

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0:00.0	We all know about the joy experienced making photographs.
0:13.0	It's a feeling that makes the process so intoxicating.
0:18.0	It's a feeling that comes from recognizing the potential of a moment or depressing
0:23.6	the shutter at just the right second or holding that finished print. It just feels so good.
0:32.3	For some of us, there is another joy that arises from photography. It's the feeling associated with entering other people's lives, and not just for the sake of a photograph.
0:45.3	It's licensed to learn and share in someone else's life in a way that just doesn't happen in the common world.
0:53.7	It's a wonderful gift to be trusted in that special way.
0:58.5	Amy Tunzing's work reflects that joy.
1:02.0	Her career as a photojournalist and documentary photographer
1:05.5	has gained her entry to the world of Australian Aborigines
1:09.5	to beachcomers of the Jersey Shore.
1:13.1	Her work for National Geographic reflects her skills as a photographer and as a human being
1:20.1	with both patience and a compassionate heart.
1:25.1	This is Ibarian X and welcome back to the Candid Frame.
1:34.7	So how are you?
1:36.0	So how are you guys holding up in the midst of all this madness?
1:40.3	You know, in the grand scheme of things, I feel very lucky, but that doesn't mean that on a daily basis I'm not like pulling my hair out.
1:51.0	So I try to remember how lucky I am, but definitely it's been a little crazy.
1:56.3	I don't know if you feel this. I was thinking about this recently.
1:58.9	Like, it just, it's weird that it's gotten
2:01.9	kind of normalized on so many levels with what's going on. It's like we've just adjusted,
2:09.7	you know, how you proceed. And I think it also involves a certain degree of denial. Right. Yeah. Yeah.
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